SYSTUF
Telecommunication Systemfor Future Urban Transport

The SYSTUF project is a response to the Intelligent Transportation Systems call of the French government program Investments for the Future - National Fund for the digital society. This project deals with research and development in technologies, innovative products and services related to intelligent transportation systems and focuses on tramways and metro systems.

The project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using a single communication technology based on LTE (Long term Evolution) to meet the Quality of Service requirements of critical (control and command also called CBTC – Communication Based Train Control) and non vital (also called CCTV – Close Circuit TeleVision) applications simultaneously and to enable the development of innovative services contributing to seamless mobility which meets the growing demand for "smart and environment-friendly mobility." The work will focus, for medium-term, on the deployment of a reference architecture and its business model. The SYSTUF project aims to produce a proof of concept offering a unified framework for telecommunication needs in public transport (mainly tramways and metros), taking into account the constraints of safety-critical applications.

The goal is to define and implement a new multiservice and broadband end-to-end communication system between ground and moving vehicles to improve the quality of urban guided transports (tram, metro). The radio link between ground and vehicles will be based on the new 4G technology: LTE. The communication system will streamline in a single open and standardized system all proprietary communication applications used today by urban transport operators and it will carry on the same communication infrastructure data traffic related to new applications that will enable operators to improve safety, security and the passenger experience in urban transportations. The contributions of this project will be:

The definition and characterization of both traditional and new applications that will improve the quality of urban public transports.

The definition and implementation of an end-to-end communication architecture (ground infrastructure, on-board infrastructure) based on LTE technology.

The development of an ecosystem allowing the deployment of the solution proposed in this project across Europe and possibly worldwide.

The demonstration of the proposed solution on an experimental network.